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SyriaComment (Free subscription) | 02/08/2010
Global Crisis Had Limited Impact on Syrian Economy – IMF Report Syria Report: 08/02/2010 Syria’s economy continued to grow at about 4 percent last year, as the impact of the global crisis remained limited, an IMF report said. The report by the International Monetary Fund consisted of the preliminary findings of a mission conducted in Damascus last December [...]
France24 (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
Syria will support Lebanon in the event of any attack from Israel, President Bashar al-Assad told the speaker of Beirut's parliament on on Sunday, the official SANA news agency reported. "Syria will stand alongside the government and people of Lebanon against any possible Israeli aggression launched on Lebanon," the agency quoted Assad as saying to Nabih Berri in Damascus. Assad and Berri...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
Damascus - Syria is ready to respond to Israeli aggression , Syrian Minister of Information Mohsen Bilal said Sunday, in an escalating war of words between the two countries. Speaking at a seminar near the Israeli border, Bilal said his country was ...
France24 (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel wants peace with Syria and the Palestinians, following a fierce exchange of words with Damascus that raised tensions in the region. "Israel wants peace with all its neighbours. We made peace with Egypt and Jordan and we seek peace with Syria and the Palestinians," Netanyahu said at the start of a weekly cabinet meeting. The hawkish...
Jesus Lives! (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
From Debka Debkafile Iranian and military sources report the war threats from Damascus this week were backed by massive Iranian airlifts for boosting Syria’s missile arsenal. Fresh supplies also reached the Lebanese Hizballah and Hamas in Gaza. Wednesday, Feb. 3, Syrian president Bashar Assad accused Israel of seeking war, while his foreign minister Walid Moallem boasted: “You [...]
Time (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
The Obama Administration is moving to send an ambassador to Syria five years after President Bush called home the last one. That could help U.S. goals in Iraq, Iran and elsewhere, but trouble may be looming on the Israeli-Syrian front
Jerusalem Post (Free subscription) | 02/06/2010
Analysis: IDF believes in peace with Syria over keeping the Golan Heights.
1913 Intel (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
debkafile Iranian and military sources report the war threats from Damascus this week were backed by massive Iranian airlifts for boosting Syria’s missile arsenal. Fresh supplies also reached the Lebanese Hizballah and Hamas in Gaza. Wednesday, Feb. 3, Syrian president Bashar Assad accused Israel of seeking war, while his foreign minister Walid Moallem boasted: “You [...]
Maggie's Notebook (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
The US, under the Obama administration, is making-nice with Syria. Robert Stephen Ford will serve as US Ambassador to Syrian, the first time we have had an Ambassador in residence inside the rogue country in 4 years. At this time, no official announcement of Ford to the post has been made but many reports say that Middle East Envoy, George Mitchell, made the Syrian government aware of the appointment....
Israelated (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
debkafile Iranian and military sources report the war threats from Damascus this week were backed by massive Iranian airlifts for boosting Syria's missile arsenal. Fresh supplies also reached the Lebanese Hizballah and Hamas in Gaza. Wednesday, Feb. 3, Syrian president Bashar Assad accused Israel of seeking war, while his foreign minister Walid Moallem boasted: "You know that war at this time...
Jerusalem Post (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
The IDF still believes that it has more to benefit from peace with Syria than it does from keeping the Golan Heights.
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
Israel's foreign minister raised tensions with Syria yesterday by telling Damascus to abandon its claim to the Golan Heights, the territory it lost in the 1967 war...
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
Israel's foreign minister raised tensions with Syria yesterday by telling Damascus to abandon its claim to the Golan Heights, the territory it lost in the 1967 war...
Rantburg (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
[Ma'an] Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman threatened Syrian President Bashar Assad and his family on Thursday, speaking at a business forum hosted by Tel Aviv's Bar Ilan University. "If you declare war on Israel, you and your family will lose your reign," he said, according to a statement circulated by the university, which is considered among the more right-wing institutions in...
Jerusalem Post (Free subscription) | 02/04/2010
After Lieberman's warning to Damascus, PM tells ministers to refrain from speaking to press on Syria.
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